TYPO3 Core

This isn't new - at least since 3.5b3, isn't it?
I have changed the severity status to feature

Not new effectively, but it's worse now.

In TYPO3 3.5, it wasn't working for the first item your were trying to move, but worked well after. Now it doesn't work at all. Was tested with Communicator 4.78.

I liked the concept of this widget, and think it really useful.

I'm not agree about the «feature» severity regarding the description here:

http://bugs.typo3.org/doc/documentation.html#severity

I would left it as minor or may be «tweak», because, it should be relatively easy to fix. An old bug, should not become a feature.

Seeing that the image is called *totop.gif and a function which moves the item to top I am not sure if it was the original intention to just move the item one position upwards.

-> So the 'bug' might be just a misleading helptext to the button ('Move select item upwards').

I have attached a patch and the whole file class.t3lib_tceforms.php which generates two new buttons (up+down) as well as two images which should be saved int typo3/gfx/ folder.
I have also introduced two options for diasbling these fields - but please be carefull: If these buttons are not disabled you will see them all the time.
(you still have to add the helptext in typo3/sysext/langlocal/lang_core.xml - label "labels.move_up" and "labels.move_down"

hth so far. (all code for typo 3.7.0rc1 -cvs)

this is fixed in 3.8.0dev (and beta 2.1) .